Dec 19
WordCamp Whistler Pitch: Moving Beyond the Blog - Building Web Sites with WordPress as the CMS
WordCamp is coming to the wonderful winter wonderland of Whistler on January 24th, 2009 and I’d like to throw my name in the hat of presenters and share some of what I’ve learned working with everyone’s favourite blogging platform WordPress as a full fledged CMS. Now I’m not part of what is considered the Vancouver [...]
Dec 19
Using Conditional Custom Fields for Advanced Layouts
An often overlooked function in the WordPress arsenal is Custom Fields. Overlooked because to most it makes no sense: What do you use a custom field for? And how do you use it? The answers to these questions differ depending on how the WordPress theme has been set up: Custom fields can be used for [...]
Dec 11
Typograph for WordPress 2.7 Coltrane released
With the release of WordPress 2.7 Coltrane came the introduction of a new template tag called post_class(). Interestingly I have been using a custom template tag by that exact name for a long time in my themes including the free Typograph. That means when users of Typograph upgrade to WordPress 2.7 Coltrane a conflict occurs [...]
Dec 02
WordPress 2.7 to be released Dec. 4th
UPDATE v.2: Turns out I jumped the gun a bit on this one: As Matt states in the comments below, it was the update to WordPress.com that was scheduled for December 4th. The WordPress.org update is still some days away. I’ll wait (im)patiently.
UPDATE: Now it seems the WordPress team has pushed the release back to [...]
Nov 27
Typograph - new WordPress Theme
I’ve been planning to launch a proper free WordPress theme for some time now but there have always been major projects in the way. This week I had some extra time so I sat down and developed the Typograph theme which is now available for anyone to use. For free.
The theme is as simple as [...]
